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Balanced,yes. Strongest, no. Their teams routinely get beaten in Europe.. The champions, Dortmund actually finished bottom of their group if I'm not mistaken. As for balanced, the Championship (English 2nd division) has to take the cake here. The competition is crazy. Attendance to rival any major league in the world. Amazing history. Talent, not so much.

yeah, but my point was that about 6 teams would stay in the first bundesliga, the likes of atletico would be middle tier teams there, but wouldn't be relegated.
I also think the english league is the strongest, followed by germany. Then Italy and Spain on the next level..

"Football" refers to a number of different sports, including gridiron football, association football, Aussie rules football, and rugby football. It quite literally means that the play is advanced on foot (rather than horseback). In everyday usage, it refers whichever of these games is most popular in the speaker's region. If you wish to one of the other games, you have to use its full name.

The word "soccer" is an English slang term for "association football" and is a commonly-accepted substitute. The word "soccer" is, in fact, far more precise and accurate than calling the game simply "football".

Furthermore, you're on an American website populate mostly with Americans. Purposefully using incorrect terms for things seems inconsiderate at best.

Sooner or later, English will no longer be defined by those that speak it natively, but by the the majority that uses it as a second language. When this majority realizes that they are not limited to what is anglo-saxian tradition but that they can use what makes sense in their cultural context, they can stop feel like second class citizens when communicating with each other on a common fora.

Football is called football or, its direct translation, in almost every language apart from certain versions of English. It makes no sense to accomodate for a tradition which is not really paying attention to the sport even (relatively speaking).

The thing is that American football is far less popular than association football, which is called football all over the world. I'd also like to see that statistic that shows that over 50% of people on reddit are American.

Then why is American football called football? Why didn't the inventors of American football think of this? Also nearly every country refers to association football as football, even in their own languages ( See here). It's nearly unambiguous, since outside of America, football is normally association football, because of its popularity. Just as football in the US means American football. I don't think a lot of people say American football.

That's why I most of reddit calls it "American football" outside of /r/cfb and /r/nfl - they want to be unambiguous. So we can start referring to it as "association football" or stick with the shortened version of that phrase "soccer" when we aren't in /r/soccer

Plenty of others, but of more interest is those federations or associations who call it soccer. Such luminaries as the Canadian league. And a quick google of "soccer association" brings the mighty "Isle of Wight Beach Soccer Association" on page one!

The goal.For those that don't know, this is the goal he scored in the dying seconds of the Champions League semi-final (biggest tourney in Europe) to get Barcelona into the finals, which they won. Fucking clutch

This has to be my favourite goal of all time. Not only is it beautiful, it's also the decisive completion of Rivaldo's excellent hattrick, a last-minute goal that secured Barcelona's place in the following Champions League.

You can argue Derdiyok's effort took more skill, or the setup here was more impressive, but the importance & timing of Rivaldo's goal is unparallelled... and that makes it more special, for me.

The guy taking his shirt off (and about to switch it for the black shirt worn by his on-pitch team mates) is about to come on as a substitute. The fact he is changing shirts is an indication of this and worthy of commentary and thus the camera assigned to filming the manager and the bench is focused on him.

He did it by using his feet to manipulate the ball in such a way that its trajectory changed, giving him more time and a little more space from the defenders then capitalized with a bicycle kick that launched the ball just far enough out of the reach of the surprisingly slow goalie but still within the confines of the "goal".

In football nowadays it is an automatic yellow card if you take your shirt off after you score. So, if you see someone do it in the modern game you can be pretty sure that they are damn happy with the goal they score.

I always thought this was because of some weird prudish thing about not wanting to show male "nudity". However, recently I heard someone say it's because after scoring they obviously get a lot of camera time and the sponsors plastered across their chest obviously want to be associated with that goal and their success. If they remove their shirts the sponsors name is also removed, so the sponsors put pressure on FIFA to enforce this rule. Not sure if this is just your standard corporate conspiracy malarky, but sounds kind of reasonable.

It's the sponsor reason. Keeping sponsors happy is good for the game, because money comes from public interest, public interest comes from perceived quality, quality comes from money, and money comes from sponsors. It's a symbiotic relationship for most clubs.

On a similar note, around Remembrance Day, FIFA banned the English national team from wearing embroidered poppies on their kit in a friendly against Spain. It seems ridiculous and FIFA eventually gave in, but it makes you wonder: what if Germany or Italy wanted to wear a patch to commemorate their war dead? For all the BS that FIFA is guilty of, one has to admire their ability in seeing the big picture.

nobody has answered you so i will, its is just pure happiness. what that guy did in that video is no easy task. that is a high class goal, and the excitement that you get when you score is so overwhelming that sometimes you just have to take you shirt off and swing it around, not everyone does it some slide or dance, its just preference.

That looked like he was offside to me, but then again I know nothing about soccer.

EDIT: So I read the other comments and:

Offsides occurs at the instance of the pass, so when the passer kicks the ball you look at the position of the player at that instance and see if they are in front of the last defender. after the ball is kicked it doesn't matter where the person who gets the ball is.

I'm sorry for the off-topic question, but: is there any way to disable this random html5 youtube player? I fucking hate it. It slows down my computer (work), and it's a pain to navigate through the video, it usually just hangs.

World class finish, now folks of reddit what makes him different from Top world class finishers is one question... Can he do that again? Can he do that thirty more times? That was an a technically insanely hard goal to score at that level of soccer, the fact that he pulled it off blew my mind, hopefully he can keep it up.

not to take away from the amazing skill and quick thinking of the Eren Derdiyok to make such a shot, but the goalie for whatever reason not stopping such a easy slow shot. Albeit it was unexpected, it is his job to defend the goal from even unexpected shots. GO SOCCER! more people in America need to fall in love with the sport!